Shimadzu Corporation has invested in U.S. startup SUN METALON Inc. (Sun Metalon, Illinois) through its corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, “Shimadzu Future Innovation Fund”. Sun Metalon is developing solution to recycle scrap metal generated by the automotive, construction machinery, and steel manufacturing industries at the sites. Despite its potential value, scrap metal generated at manufacturing [...]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- SynVivo, a pioneering organ-on-chip company developing advanced microfluidic platforms that replicate human tissue microenvironments for drug discovery, today announced the appointment of Dr. Richard Eglen as a non-executive member of its Board of Directors. Dr. Eglen brings over 40 years of leadership experience in the life sciences industry, having held senior roles [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Elemental Machines, a pioneer in intelligent lab operations solutions, announced the expansion of its partnership as a Gold Sponsor with LabCentral, a premier launchpad for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups. As part of the partnership, Elemental Machines will continue to provide its Intelligent Operations Platform and validated hardware integrations across LabCentral’s flagship [...]

On Wednesday, May 21 2025, ORYL Photonics introduces the ORYL F1, a novel automated laser-based platform for the measurement of solubility and aggregation of drug molecules in the Life Science industry. This is a significant achievement for the fast-growing Swiss company and for the solubility and aggregation community. The laboratory instrument enables researchers to make [...]

At today’s meeting, the Supervisory Board of Sartorius AG resolved to extend the appointment of Dr.  Alexandra Gatzemeyer as a member of the Executive Board by a five-year period to April 30, 2031. Gatzemeyer, who holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and pharmacology, has been with Sartorius since 2004 and was appointed to the Executive Board in March 2023. [...]

MILFORD, Mass. -- Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today announced that it has acquired Halo Labs™, an innovator of specialized imaging technologies to detect, identify, and count interfering materials (particles) in therapeutic products, such as cell, protein, and gene therapies. The Aura™ platform from Halo Labs features a highly differentiated technology that performs full spectrum particle analysis and [...]

Global life-sciences and financial leaders bring decades of health-care, biopharma, and strategic expertise to support Agilent’s next phase of growth SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca, and Judy Gawlik Brown, founder and CEO of Downtown Advisory, have been elected to its Board of Directors, [...]

Biotech Fluidics AB announce working with Polymer Char (Valencia, Spain), a leading manufacturer of analytical systems for the polymer industry, to incorporate an optimized DeGASi® degasser in their Intrinsic Viscosity instruments. The implementation of a degasser in analytical systems, particularly in those that include relative viscometers, is critical for maintaining data integrity and reliability. Despite the high purity of laboratory-grade solvents, [...]

Tokyo, Japan; Rigaku Corporation, a Group company of Rigaku Holdings Corporation (headquarters: Akishima, Tokyo; CEO: Jun Kawakami; hereinafter “Rigaku”), in collaboration with the University of Tokyo, has contributed to the development of a “Digital Laboratory” — a groundbreaking experimental platform designed for the automatic and autonomous synthesis of advanced materials. This initiative is led by [...]

Vienna, Austria — Lexogen, a leader in RNA sequencing technologies, is excited to announce the launch of the miRVEL Discovery Small RNA-Seq Library Prep Kit, an advanced solution for sRNA discoveries, with an optimized protocol for low-input biofluid samples such as blood and plasma. Unlocking Biofluid sRNA Transcriptomics Circulating small RNAs in biofluids can serve [...]